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About Shropshire

Shropshire
has many traditional
market towns including
gourmet Ludlow and
the county town
of Shrewsbury.
Shrewsbury almost
surrounded by the
River Severn and
birthplace of Charles
Darwin, is a medieval delight of black and white buildings.

The
Shropshire landscape reflects
the fact that
Shropshire is geologically unique and creates the special habitats that ensures that Shropshire wildlife is so diverse. All this adds up to making Shropshire great walking country.

So whether you're out and about on Shropshire Hills, by the Meres and Mosses or strolling along with the Shropshire Union and Llangollen Canals you can guarantee the Shropshire air will rejuvenate and restore you.

The
miniature lakeland
of Meres and Mosses
around Ellesmere are
a haven for wildlife
and provide just
one habitat for
a County that has
a rich and distinctive
wildlife. otters
and dormice, hares
and bats, dragonflies
and waterfowl and
scores of flowering
plants all call
Shropshire home.
The Shropshire Wildlife
Trust has
over 30 nature reserves
to explore. Discover
the variety of wildlife
on English Nature's Mosses Trails around the north of the county.

Languid
canals contrast
with babbling
trout streams
but all are overshadowed
by the majestic
River Severn,
as it meanders
through the County,
linking the towns
of Shrewsbury,
Ironbridge and
Bridgnorth with a patchwork of fields, wooded valleys and heather clad hills.

The delightful scenery of our quiet County depends entirely on what lies beneath. For millions of years Shropshire was the setting for violent upheaval and, as the land mass slowly moved from south of the equator, the mineral rich Stiperstones and the escarpment of Wenlock Edge were created.

Shropshire is built on rocks from 11 out of the 13 known periods of geology - the smallest place in the world to boast so many.

The
Meres and Mosses
in the north of
the county, the valleys of the Longmynd in the south and the Ironbridge Gorge in the east were carved out by glaciers during the ice age.